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&gt; The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is 
your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a 
while, and watch your answers change.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt;&nbsp; There is such a thing as perfection. and our purpose for living is to find 
that perfection and show it forth. Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of 
freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we 
lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we 
never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might 
somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to 
you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost&gt;.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to 
anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a false 
messiah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You 
may have to work for it, however.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn 
them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take 
responsibility for it, well always be its victim.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we 
love, aren't we already there?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they 
don't they never were.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they 
can't give the best service.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and 
joy in each other's life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; The best way to pay for a lovely moment is by enjoying it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we 
resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? 
Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a 
speed, it feels an impulsion. this is the place to go now. but the sky knows the 
reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift 
yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and 
never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, 
but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that 
are.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you 
know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you do. 
You are all learners, doers, and teachers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Nothing happens by chance, my friend. No such thing as luck. A meaning behind 
every little thing and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, 
may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice 
it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a 
problem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; The more l want to get something done, the less I call it work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial">
&gt; Really profound and hard to understand: Here is a simple test to find out if 
your mission on Earth is fulfilled or not. If you're alive, it isn't.</span></p>

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